One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.